As an homage to a lot of older sci-fi media, especially about Mars, many nods and references to said media are to be expected.
These are:
- There are many references to The War of the Worlds and its possible prequel The Crystal Egg:
- Many Martian animals are tripods or have triradial symmetry.
- The name of the narrator is Ogilvy, like the astronomer at the beginning of the novel.
- The description of the great ushabti, especially its humanoid appearance, that it has a siliceous skeleton and that it would likely not be able to live on Earth, makes it resemble the bipeds that Wells' Martians use as cattle.
- The spongisporian tube-trees may be a reference to the lichenous trees of Mars mentioned in The Crystal Egg.
- Mars' red colour is in part caused by the colour of its vegetation, much like Wells speculates in the novel.
- The Aloowog makes the same sound as the tripod fighting machines.
- The poem in the Happy Holidays post seems to be written from the perspective of a Martian invader.
- The Jeff Wayne musical is quoted a couple of times. One of its tripods is featured in the Happy Holidays post along with the distinctive Ulla sound.
- When not named after Egyptian mythology or animal names, many of the aliens' common names follow a certain Barsoomian naming style. That many of the onychognaths are Vertebrates With Extra Limbs is likely also an homage.
- The Rhinoceros Warhoon is named after one of the Green Martian tribes.
- The dust slugs are an almost direct adaptation of some of the creatures seen in Disney's Mars and Beyond. The whole work is in fact strongly inspired by said documentary.
- The great ushabti profile opens with a fitting quote from In the Walls of Eryx.
- The profile features a thinly-veiled Take That! against Michael Crichton, as well as the depiction of aliens/sci-fi-cultures as pastiches of Native Americans or Bedouins, as seen in the likes of Avatar or Dune.
- In the same profile is mentioned "some Danish brick company" that sells Martian minifigures. The head shape of the ushabti even resembles that of the Lego Martians.
- Onychognaths have spiracles in front of their limbs and silicon-discs for eyes, much like the vertebrates of Snaiad
- The Venus page quotes a passage from Paradise Lost.
- The account of Daniel Flammarion's Robinsonade on Venus is a reference to Robinson Crusoe on Mars, which was even reviewed on the website.
- The title of the Europa page is an obvious one to 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
- The nature of the Europan ocean is similar to Solaris or the Amoebic Sea, just more aggressive.
- The briefly mentioned Synthologist Cult seems similar to Unitology from Dead Space. In the background of the Europa image can also be seen a marker.
- The image of Europa's surface is based off Das Eismeer, a painting by Caspar David Friedrich.
- The appearance of the ice crab resembles the arachnids from Starship Troopers.
- Dagoth Ur is the (surprisingly good) narrator of the Youtube videos. The names and/or appearances of the members of the phylum Hemicalyxia are also based off enemies from Morrowind.
- The scientists cited in the profile of the Arctic Sortax are all named after characters from the German Kika show Tolle Sachen.
- The name of Syncarpus sarahlandyri, as well as its accompanying illustration, are a direct homage to Sarah Landry, who, for a 1975 issue of Scientific American, illustrated the dinosaur Syntarsus (today Megapnosaurus) with feathers, generally regarded as the first illustration of a feathered non-avian dinosaur.